After their major defeat in the elections to the Bundestag, Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have been relegated to the opposition with just 23 percent of the vote. For the last four years the SPD formed a grand coalition with the conservative Christian Democrats. The European press discusses the future of the battered Social Democrats and their relations with The Left party.
With articles from the following publications: Népszabadság - Hungary, De Volkskrant - Netherlands, Lidové noviny - Czech Republic, La Repubblica - Italy